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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2012-04-06 21:48:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2012-04-06 21:48:59 -0400 |
| commit | eeaab2d8af2cf1d36d7086f22e9de42d6dd2995c (patch) | |
| tree | 369b9c91a6d808944f07d2290fec6f9fe2731904 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | ee01e663373343c63e0e3d364d09f6155378dbcc (diff) | |
| parent | aaef292acf3a78d9c0bb6fb72226077d286b45d7 (diff) | |
Merge branches 'idle-fix' and 'misc' into release
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index b4a3d765ff9a..74acd9618819 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -429,3 +429,9 @@ filemap_write_and_wait_range() so that all dirty pages are synced out properly. You must also keep in mind that ->fsync() is not called with i_mutex held anymore, so if you require i_mutex locking you must make sure to take it and release it yourself. + +-- +[mandatory] + d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code +misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is, +d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. |